With superior products, equipment and programs, Ecolab’s Food & Beverage Division – the leader in its markets – helps facilitate their production for safe human consumption. Clean-in-Place (CIP) 1. An accurrate, efficient computerized dispensing program and system used during a plant’s cleaning cycle to clean and sanitize processing lines, tanks and filling equipment that carry food, beverage and dairy products. 2. Without CIP technology, pioneered by Ecolab, processing lines and pipes must be dismantled for cleaning and sanitizing. Food & Beverage 30 Food & Beverage AT A GLANCE Markets served: Dairy plants Dairy, poultry and swine farms Food processors Fruit and vegetable processors Meat and poultry processors Beverage and brewery processors Pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturers Services provided: Custom-designed dispensing and control systems; premium detergents, cleaners, sanitizers and lubricants; and water treatment tailored to each market sector. Strengths: Complete premium cleaning programs coupled with proprietary dispensing equipment for dairy, beverage and food producers and farmers, backed by a highly trained sales-and-service force. OVERVIEW Cleaning and sanitation must begin at the start of the food chain, long before dishes reach the table. Through its Food & Beverage Division, Ecolab provides cleaning and sanitation products, programs and expertise to dairies, farmers, food and beverage processors, and breweries, to help facilitate the production of products safe for human consumption. In addition, Food & Beverage is leveraging its expertise developed in serving the process manufacturing industry to serve pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturers. Food and product safety is the division’s business. The base is broad, and perhaps nowhere is the need for proper sanitation and cleaning more critical. The market leader in the dairy plant, agribusiness (dairy farm), beverage and brewery sectors – as well as possessing a growing presence in the multi-faceted food processing arena – Food & Beverage provides such customers with premium detergents, cleaners, sanitizers and conveyor lubricants to help ensure safe processing of food. It also designs, manufactures and supplies electronic controls and dispensing equipment that enhance precise product usage in a market where there is no room for error. All are delivered through Food & Beverage’s sales-and-service force, about two-thirds of which holds degrees in dairy science, food science, microbiology, chemistry or engineering. Tsunami EPA registered peroxyacetic-acid based antimicrobial for flume and wash water systems that help reduce microbial counts on fruit and vegetable surfaces. Food & Beverage 31 Food & Beverage management services program. First, Food & Beverage consults with customers, helping them comply with regulations and minimize their costs by reusing and conserving water wherever possible. The goals are to manage water flow and minimize the amount of wastewater generated. Second, increasingly stringent wastewater discharge standards mean dairy processing plants must be conscious of wastewater content. For example, Solodigm, a clean-in-place detergent system for dairy processors, uses no chlorine, phosphates or caustic chemicals. This reduces problem effluent constituents and helps customers meet even the strictest wastewater standards. Food & Beverage also offers water treatment products for servicing boilers and cooling water systems through a cross-divisional DAIRY PLANTS partnership with Ecolab’s Water Care Services Division. Dairy plants are Food & Beverage’s core market, and the division is the market leader. Customers in this market segment process milk into the products consumers buy in the AGRIBUSINESS supermarket, such as fluid milk, cheese, yogurt and ice cream. Food & Beverage is the market leader During processing, milk products are transported through an in dairy agribusiness. This sector deals extensive pipeline network, from the dairy trucks that deliver with live animals, as opposed to animal raw milk, to pasteurizing, mixing, blending and final by-products. Food & Beverage supplies packaging. To effectively and efficiently accomplish cleaning products that enhance animal health and sanitation in these vast pipeline networks, customers as well as milking system and environmental sanitation products to help ensure delivery of a safe, uncontaminated food product. For instance, with dairy farmers, sanitation begins with the cow. Food & Beverage offers teat dips to help prevent infection, and detergents and sanitizers to clean milking machines. It also provides detergents and sanitizers to clean the pipes, vats, coolers and holding tanks that transport raw milk at the dairy farm, as well as products to clean milking parlor surfaces. Food & Beverage employs a highly effective group of knowledgeable, experienced farm specialists to serve customers in this market. The specialists market Food & Beverage’s offerings primarily ...